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Lenana's Student Sponsorship Program
Learn about Lenana Girls student sponsorship program, how you can help, and what you, your sponsored student and the community will get out of it.
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Fundraising
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Scholarship Fund
CGA is happy to announce the creation of Lenana Girls Scholarship Fund. Learn more about it here. |
About Lenana Girls High School
Common Ground for Africa is looking to establish a national centre of academic excellence for bright but disadvantaged girls by incorporating high standards of discipline, responsibility, integrity and service. Lenana Girls High School will be a national boarding school offering quality secondary education to disadvantaged girls from all over Kenya. For its first few years of operation, Lenana will accept both girl and boy students as we build enrollment to a level where only girls will be admitted. The mission of the school is to provide a nurturing and supportive environment within which girls from disadvantaged backgrounds can realize their full potential both academically and personally, and to address the imbalance in access to quality education and leadership opportunities for disadvantaged adolescent girls. Such opportunities are crucial for young Kenyan women. Currently, 90% of Maasai, Kalenjin, Gusii, Meru and Kuria girls are circumcised and married off before they reach the age of 13 years. Circumcision of both boys and girls is considered a rite of passage. It is however more serious for girls as they are considered ready for marriage once circumcised. As a result, young girls are often sentenced to wifehood at an early age at the expense of education. CGA and a consortium of women groups are currently planning to build a school for girls who prefer to acquire education as opposed to female genital mutilation and early marriage. Lenana Girls High School will be established for orphaned, vulnerable and disspossessed girls from the age of 11 to 22. The objective is to create a school that is 100% self-sufficient within 5-10 years. We hope to achieve this by developing businesses that will generate enough income to cover all the running costs of the school. Such projects will include dairy business, a solar power battery charging business for people to charge their mobile phones, fruit tree production, crafts, sewing, bee keeping, etc. Members of the school and local community will be involved in these businesses and planning to expand them and develop them further. During the school year, girls will work on the business as part of the curriculum, and learn the practical skills necessary to plan and run a successful businesses. This model is one that we believe can be replicated across the developing world. The involvement of the local community means the model could be replicated in other areas of Kenya in the future, with little outside input. |
Lenana Girls Fundraising
Lenana Girls is only made possible through the generous donations of our supporters both within the community and around the globe. Below is a list of our current donation opportunities. If you have an questions or would like to make a donation in a different amount, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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